Monthly Archives: August 2012

Fosmid libraries provide long range linking information that can vastly improve the size of an assembly’s scaffolds. Whilst these optional libraries are not required for small genomes, we do recommend them if you are trying to assemble anything large. However, building … Continue reading →

Don’t have any suitable data yet, but would still like to try out ALLPATHS-LG? In support of our recent hybrid assembly paper, we have provided data suitable for both Illumina only and Illumina + Pacific Biosciences bacterial assemblies. For something larger you … Continue reading →

The Broad Institute is preparing to offer a service that takes as input a bacterial DNA sample and provides as output a genome assembly based on the new laboratory and computational methods. For further information please write to AssemblyService@broadinstitute.org.